El amor que nace de repente es el más largo de curar.
Honoré de BalzacPassion is born deaf and dumb.
Honoré de BalzacHolding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.
Honoré de BalzacPassion is univeral humanity. Without it religion history art and romance would be useless.
Honoré de BalzacYes,' Montriveau went on in an unsteady voice, 'this Catholic faith to which you wish to convert me is a lie that men make for themselves; hope is a lie at the expense of the future; pride, a lie between us and our fellows; and pity, and prudence, and terror are cunning lies. And now my happiness is to be one more lying delusion; I am expected to delude myself, to be willing to give gold coin for silver to the end. If you can so easily dispense with my visits; if you confess me neither as your friend nor your love, you do not care for me! And I, poor fool that I am, tell myself this, and know it, and love you!
Honoré de BalzacYoung man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you to despair.
Honoré de BalzacAn unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Honoré de BalzacTo walk is to vegetate,
to stroll is to live.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honoré de BalzacEquality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
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